Karsten Wiese: > > Am Montag, 13. November 2006 17:11 schrieb Carlo Capocasa: > > As always when blaming someone it turns out this has absolutely nothing > > to do with the supposed culprit. Apparently, my lower-end Dell notebook > > has a singing capacitor, which gets induced by the jack daemon calling > > an interrupt, as indicated by the frequency of the noise problem > > correlating to the jack buffer size. Interestingly, the noise is not > > audible when the system is under some load. > > > > My current approach is to find a load generator that will place a little > > load on the system to make the hum go away while still leaving some room > > for softsynths. > > A simple load generator with low scheduling priority: > > echo 'for ((;1;)); do i=0; done;'|nice -n 19 sh > > Run it in a shell. > Stop it with Ctrl+C. > No need for kernel fix here ;-) > Funny, I use something similar to heaten my bedroom. :-)
